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Abstract
Bringing Paper GIS to the 21st Century: Oregon Historical Inventory Data Becomes Digital
Track: Ecology, Archaeology, and Conservation
Author(s): Eric Hiebenthal
For more than 20 years, the Oregon State Historic Preservation Office (OSHPO) has collected information on the historic inventories and surveys conducted in Oregon. These reports were shelved and graphically displayed on a menagerie of maps, which themselves were collected over the years. This map set now displays approximately 18,000 sites, inventories, or surveys. While some of the recent data exists in digital form, most of this data the only other record is in the original reports submitted to OSHPO. Performing a geographic search of this data consisted of reviewing the map collection at the OSHPO, not exactly expedient or convenient for the number of users or their need for this data. One of those users, the Bureau of Land Management, is working with OSHPO to automate this information. While the most comprehensive plan would be to start from the original reports to create a digital data set, converting the current "Paper GIS" to digital allows for a quicker, more cost-effective alternative, though not without its own cost.
Eric Hiebenthal
BLM
CCM
1515 SW Fifth Ave.
Suite 550
Portland , OR 97201-5406
USA
Phone: 503 952 6565
Fax: 503 952 6419
E-mail: ehiebent@or.blm.gov